Britt, Fanny

Summary: While on a camping trip with her class, Hélène, who as the target of bullies is forced to sleep in the "outcasts" tent, finds hope in "Jane Eyre," an encounter with a fox, and the arrival of Géraldine, an extroverted classmate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRI

Britt, Fanny

Summary: During the summer holiday Louis and his younger brother spend two weeks with their dad, who appears to have stopped drinking, but a close call with a bee sting brings their mother and the quartet spend a few days together before everything starts back upagain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BRI

Scott, Janny

Summary: "Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT, ROBERT MONTGOMERY SCO

Scott, Janny.

Summary: Award-winning reporter Scott uncovers the full breadth of Stanley Ann Dunham's inspiring and untraditional life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUNHAM, S. ANN SCO

Swift, Penny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Holland 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.89 SWI

Gemmell, Kathy.

Summary: An introduction to French which follow the exploits of the quirky Noisette family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 1993

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 443.21 GEM

Smith, Danny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5431 SMI

Stites, Susan (M. Susan)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2001

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4923 STI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 STI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI Straits Stites

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4923 STI

Summary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NAN

Smith, Penny

Summary: Describes the ways patterns on animals' fur and skin keep them safe and hidden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SMI

Smith, Penny

Summary: Introduces children from around the world and discusses where they live, how they play, and what their schools are like.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.2 SMI

Smith, Penny.

Summary: Describes the ways animals keep themselves safe and hidden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SMI

Summary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCA

Summary: This film reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FAN

Smith, Kenny

Summary: "A riveting memoir from Kenny Smith ("Kenny the Jet")-superstar basketball commentator, host of top-rated Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals his thoughtful views on race, the NBA, his upbringing, and an abundance of poignant, colorful inside stories about the star players, coaches, and mentors who taught and inspired him along the way. In his playing career, Kenny Smith...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, KENNY SMI

Sones, Sonya.

Summary: "I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Elizabeth Berg in celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones's first adult novel, weaving together a seamless narrative in free verse--a funny, fierce and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SON

Scott, Jenny

Summary: Twelve-year-old Olivia is psychic! With her friend Sebastian's help, she creates a blog called Clairvoyant Claire on which she posts her predictions. But when Olivia posts her vision that a pirate treasure will be stolen, people do not believe her. But with a dramatic arrest her prediction turns out to be true.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, and imprint of Magic Wagon 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCO

Summary: Three radical activists like to make their point by breaking into the homes of the wealthy, re-arranging their belongings and leaving cryptic messages. When one such break-in goes wrong, they are forced to kidnap a wealthy businessman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EDU
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EDU

Scott-Fox, Penny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 SCO

Summary: Go behind the Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWE

Summary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWE